Tag: Valentine’s Day gift ideas

Not long to go to find that PERFECT gift for your loved (or to be loved) companion!
Well fear not! Here is a handy run down of some selected top notch gifts for the super special him or her in your life. These are guaranteed winners we assure you.

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The big day is fast approaching and love is in the air. Yep it’s that special time of year where love birds everywhere get geared up and ready to show their other halves, secret crushes or even best friends just how much they mean to them in style with nights out/in, cards, flowers…the works!

So with Valentine’s Day approaching fast, we couldn’t resist giving you lovely peeps the chance to bag some amazing retro inspired goodies to add to the pressie pile, or to treat yourself to!

Entries open from 7pm tonight, the 10th February. To get involved, head on over to Twitter and retweet our competition tweet making sure you also follow us on @truffleshuffle_. Make sure you include the special #TSVDCOMP tag so we can spot your entry.

You have just 3 hours to get your entry in as it closes at 10pm TONIGHT so get those digits ready to tweet at 7pm as you don’t have long!

How Will I Know If I Win?

Once the winner has been randomly selected from our qualifying entrants the next morning (11th), we will contact them directly via the Twitter profile used to enter. Nice and easy so stay tuned folks!

T’s&C’s
Only one winner will be chosen at random.
There will be no cash alternative to prizes offered.
If we do not hear back from the winner after 1 week, another will be chosen at random.
TruffleShuffle.co.uk reserve the right to close/cancel the competition at any time.
Winner decision is final.

Let me introduce myself, my name is Miranda, and I am a Manchester girl with a passion for music. I was very much a child of the 90’s – I grew up listening to influential musicians from my hometown such as Morrissey and Oasis and a love of music blossomed from there.

My amazing 6th Birthday cake!

My appreciation of all things retro started at the grand age of 6, when I got my first album. It was a Ramones album, a band that had formed 15 years before I was even born. I even insisted for a time that my family called me ‘Riff’ in honour of Riff Randall from the 1979 film ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll High School’ featuring the Ramones. I was a little quirky, perhaps.

I still regularly watch ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll High School’, and I’d consider myself a huge film fan, although my husband is constantly infuriated by my refusal to watch anything new.

“How about we watch a film? The King’s Speech maybe? It’s supposed to be brilliant.”
“Erm, how about we watch Wayne’s World again?”
“We watched it just last week. Can we watch something else?”
“Erm, ok. Clueless?”

This persistent loyalty to everything retro has led me to Truffle Shuffle numerous times, and as a writer I was delighted when I was asked to do a Valentine’s themed blog post. By definition, my name actually means ‘To be admired’ so it’s quite fitting that I am here to wave the pink, glittery flag for Valentine’s Day.

Now, despite what my name may imply, my admirers have not always flourished in the gift department. In fact, I do believe I was once subject to the world’s worst example of gifting – committed in the name of love.

Let me set the scene for you, it was Valentine’s Day 2006, I was a starry-eyed teen waiting for my date outside the local cinema and as it was our first date, my expectations were fairly high. He arrived, holding his hands behind his back with a coy smile. Oh what could my sweetheart possibly have for me?

It is at this point that I would like to state that my expectations were categorically not met!

My date presented me with what he called ‘personalised flowers’ – to me and you they are floral tributes. That’s right my friends, the flowers you find at funerals. He gave me a giant ‘M’ made from roses, the roses being the only vaguely romantic thing about the gift. He actually marvelled at what a clever idea these ‘personalised flowers’ were.
Well yeah, what a brilliant idea – what better way to romance a girl than to help her visualise her funeral? And what’s worse, is that I couldn’t even immediately run away screaming – I had to actually carry this giant ‘M’ into the cinema with me, with a fake smile on my face. I spent the entire film with it at my feet, picturing my untimely demise.
There was no second date.

So, drawing on that experience, I’d like to make a stand against bad gifts. Valentine’s Day is an opportunity to show some love to the special person in your life, and the guys at Truffle Shuffle have got us well and truly hooked up with some fabulous little gifts for lovers everywhere. Here are my favourites…